In evolutionary terms, smell is among the oldest of the senses. In animals ranging from invertebrates to humans, olfaction exerts a primal influence as the brain continuously and subconsciously processes the steady stream ...
Sep 24, 2013
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(Medical Xpress) -- Traumatic brain injury has entered the public's consciousness as the silent, signature wound brought back by many of our military warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. But such injuries don't only happen ...
Aug 22, 2011
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It is well known that car safety equipment was originally designed with male-representative bodies in mind. This means women sitting in the front row are more likely to suffer severe or fatal injuries in the case of a crash. ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Most of America "springs forward" Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It also could harm your health.
Mar 8, 2024
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The deaths and injuries caused by car drivers are an everyday occurrence. This road violence has become normalized. We take it for granted as the price we have to pay to use our cars.
Nov 2, 2023
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America's kids are safer now than a decade ago when it comes to many types of injury, with two glaring exceptions: drugs and guns.
Oct 7, 2023
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When the Cleveland Browns play downtown along Lake Erie, more than 67,000 fans can fill the stadium. Some three hours after kickoff, those tens of thousands of people all have to do the same thing at once—go home.
Mar 22, 2023
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People who have visited the emergency department for fainting are no more prone to car crashes than other emergency department patients, new research out of UBC's faculty of medicine has found.
Aug 4, 2022
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Spring and fall time changes for daylight saving time should be scrapped because they pose health and safety risks, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) says.
Mar 11, 2022
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Even though Americans drove less in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, close to 39,000 lives were lost on U.S. roadways in 2020—the highest death toll since 2007, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...
Mar 3, 2022
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